Vyacheslav ("Slava") Viktorovych Shyrshov ( uk, В'ячеслав Вікторович Ширшов) (born 9 July 1979) is a

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from

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, who won the gold medal in the men's 50 metres freestyle event at the

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. He represented his native country at two consecutive

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, starting in 2000 in

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Awards and achievements

* 2000 Sep , XXVII Olympic Games SYDNEY,

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** 4 × 100 m RELAY MEDLEY MEN — 11th place * 2001 Jun , The 9th FINA World Swimming Championships FUKUOKA,

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** 50m Backstroke — 8th place ** 50m Freestyle — 6th place * 2001 Aug , The 21st Universiade BEIJING,

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** 50m Freestyle — Silver medalist of the World Universiade ** 100m Freestyle — Bronze medalist of the World Universiade ** 4 × 100 m RELAY MEDLEY MEN — Silver medalist of the World Universiade * 2001 Nov , Grand-Prix ARENA,

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** Silver medalist at major international Grand Prix * 2001 Dec , European Championships shot course ANTWERP,

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** 4x50m RELAY FREESTYLE MEN — Winner and NEW European Record * 2002 Apr , FINA Short Course Championships MOSCOW,

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** 50m Backstroke — 8th place * 2002 Dec , European Championships shot course RIESA,

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** 4x50m RELAY FREESTYLE MEN — Bronze medalist ** 4x50m RELAY MEDLEY MEN — Bronze medalist * 2003 Aug , The 22nd Summer Universiade DAEGU,

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** 50m Freestyle — Winner of the World Universiade ** 50m Backstroke — Bronze medalist of the World Universiade ** 4 × 100 m RELAY MEDLEY MEN — Bronze medalist of the World Universiade * 2003 Dec , European Championships shot course DUBLIN,

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** 50m Backstroke — Silver medalist (Today, it is the best result in Ukraine) ** 4x50m RELAY MEDLEY MEN — Bronze medalist * 2004 Aug , XXVIII Olympic Games ATHENS,

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** A member of the Olympic team of Ukraine Vyacheslav Shyrshov in 2012

* 2004 Dec , European Championships shot course VIENNA,

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** 50m Backstroke — Silver medalist ** 4x50m RELAY MEDLEY MEN — Silver medalist * 2005 Jun , The European Police championships swimming BERLIN,

** 4 × 100 m RELAY FREESTYLE MEN — Winner ** 50m Freestyle — Silver medalist * 2005 Jul , XI th FINA World Swimming Championships MONTREAL,

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** A member of the World Cup * 2011 Sep , XIII European Masters Championships YALTA,

** 50m Freestyle — Winner ** 50m Backstroke — Winner ** 4x50m RELAY MEDLEY MEN — Winner and NEW World Record ** 4x50m RELAY FREESTYLE MEN — Winner and NEW European Record ** 4x50m RELAY MEDLEY MIX — Winner ** 4x50m RELAY FREESTYLE MIX — Winner * 2012 Jun , 14th World Masters Championships RICCIONE,

** 50m Freestyle — Winner ** 50m Backstroke — Winner ** 4x50m RELAY MEDLEY MEN — Winner and NEW World Record ** 4x50m RELAY FREESTYLE MEN — Winner and NEW European Record

References

Slava Shyrshov on www.sports-reference.com
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List of Ukrainian records in swimming The Ukrainian Records in Swimming are the fastest times ever swum by a swimmer representing Ukraine. These records are kept/maintained by the Ukrainian Swimming Federation (Федерація плавання України). Records are recogniz ...

1979 births Living people Ukrainian male swimmers Ukrainian male freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Ukraine Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games gold medalists for Ukraine Universiade silver medalists for Ukraine Universiade bronze medalists for Ukraine Medalists at the 2001 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade Sportspeople from Luhansk {{Ukraine-swimming-bio-stub